How to Reserve Your Free Windows 10 Upgrade

Microsoft is making Windows 10 available as free upgrade for Windows 7, Windows 8.1 PCs. You can reserve your free upgrade now. It will download once Windows 10 is available to install. This is a full version of Windows, not a trial. requires 3 GB download, internet service charges may apply. It is available for a limited time. you have one year from the time Windows 10 is available to take advantage of this offer.

How to Reserve Your Free Windows 10 Copy

If you currently running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 with the latest updates , you will get a notification pop up in taskbar .

6. Your device is managed as part of a school or business network. (Check with your IT administrator)

PCs that we determine cannot run Windows 10 will not see the Get Windows 10 app before July 29th. After July 29th, we’ll enable the icon in the system tray. This is to help ensure that you can easily check your PC’s compatibility if you choose.

Running Windows Update and installing any available updates will fix the first 3 issues.

If you don’t think any of these conditions apply to you, and you’re still not seeing the icon, you can also try running the solution below, which will verify your device meets all the prerequisites and then turn on the Get Windows 10 app:

5. Then click the dropdown next to Save as type, and select All files (*.*)

6. Select the folder you would like to save the file to. For this example, let’s choose to save the file to the C:/Temp folder. Then click Save.

7. Open an elevated command prompt. (From the Start screen or Start menu, type Command Prompt in the search box, and then in the list of results, right-click Command Prompt, and select Run as administrator.)

8. Finally, run the file from the location you saved to in Step 6. In this example, you would type the following in the Command Prompt window and hit Enter:

C:/Temp/ReserveWin10.cmd

The Microsoft Compatibility Appraiser can take 10 – 30 minutes to run, during which the script will continuously provide status reports that it is running. Please be patient.

If the script is failing in an infinite loop, then you don’t have the necessary prerequisite Windows Updates. Besides requiring Windows 7 SP1 or Windows 8.1 Update, you must also have installed:

For Windows 7 SP1:

KB3035583
KB2952664

For Windows 8.1 Update:

KB3035583
KB2976978

You can manually check if you have these updates within your elevated command prompt by typing the command:

dism /online /get-packages | findstr 3035583

(Replace the KB number with whichever update you are looking for.) If you have the update installed, this command will show the package identity. For example, Windows 8.1 users should see this:

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